Kenny Benge preached a sermon entitled “The Absence and Presence of God” based on Exodus 3:1-15 on August 27, 2011. Exodus give us the basic pattern of God’s saving activity for all ages. Most of us experience long stretches of the seeming absence or silence of God. Whether the experience of absence is measured in weeks, months or years, for most of us it doesn’t fit into what is “normal” in our understanding of the Christian life. What do we make of his patterns of absence and presence in our lives?